File 2245 - Letter from Nouwen to students of 1985 summer lecture course

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CA ON00389 F4-7-1-2245

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Letter from Nouwen to students of 1985 summer lecture course

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  • October 7, 1985 (Creation)

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0.2 cm of textual records

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(1932-1996)

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File consists of a three page letter from Nouwen addressed to students from his Boston College summer course. The letter is dated October 7, 1985 and was written from L'Arche Daybreak. In the letter Nouwen reflects on the experiences of the course and also discusses the objectives of L'Arche. Nouwen asks his students to keep the organization in mind when ministering to people in their own communities and asks his students to "help me make it better known". The letter also includes three locations of contact, L'Arche Daybreak, the Maryknoll Residence at Cambridge, MA, and the L'Arche community of Trosly-Breuil in France.

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A cash book ledger for 1985 records a financial transaction on October 15, 1985 reading "Copying (B.C. letter from Henri)" for $38.06. See Financial files series - Cash Book 1984 -1987, file 1406.

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Introduction to the Spiritual Life was an intensive lecture course offered between July 8 and 19, 1985 at Boston College, following Nouwen's resignation from Harvard. The course was held Monday to Friday, 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm. The material of the course was drawn almost verbatim from the lecture courses offered by Nouwen in 1984 and 1985, with the typed lecture summary notes only being slightly modified. Nouwen's teaching assistants for this course were Jeff and Ann Dixon Coppage, David LeBlanc, Priscilla Pano, Ruby Hugh, Barbara Ernst, and Peter Weiskel.

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2000 02

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Box 281

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Revised by L Joson, 19 November 2018

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